2023-09-21 07:35:26
The American musician Sufjan Stevens shared his experiences with a serious illness with symptoms of paralysis. “I woke up one day last month and mightn’t walk anymore. My hands, arms and legs were numb and tingling and I had no strength, no feeling, no mobility,” the 48-year-old wrote on Instagram alongside a photo posted in sitting in a wheelchair.
Stevens says he suffers from an auto-immune disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause severe paralysis. He writes: “It is a slow process but they say I will ‘recover’, it now takes a lot of time, patience and hard work.” After acute treatment that saved his life, he has now been in rehab for two weeks, said the musician.
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Stevens was confident that most of those affected would be able to walk once more without help following a year. He thanked his doctors and nurses. “I owe them my life,” he wrote, and “they are living saints.”
Sufjan Stevens plays several instruments and is usually assigned to the folk genre. He received an Oscar nomination in 2018 for his song “Mystery of Love” for the soundtrack of the successful film “Call Me By Your Name”. His new album “Javelin” is due out next month.
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